Thank you for posting this, I hadn’t come across it and the way Al speaks now is even more compelling than a year or so go - and so is the situation. I understand better what he means since yesterday, when as part of a conference in Boston called Mass Power Shift, we spent a morning lobbying for the Global Warming Solutions Act in the State House - about 60 of us speaking to as many of the representatives as we could to urge them to get this bill passed (reducing emissions by 20% of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050) I had never done anything like this before, but speaking to the representatives there, it struck me how much they do need our support, if they are willing to do something, and how much they need to hear our urgency, again and again, if they are not. It is as important a piece in the puzzle as private sector inititives and NGOs and all of us doing whatever we can ‘at home’. I was very impressed by the people who put up that conference and realized how empowering it is to be acting on that level as well.